Quai d’Orsay expressed his “animated concern against serious developments in progress in the Souweida region,” located in southern Syria, this Wednesday, July 16, in a press release.
Therefore, France has asked for “immediate clashes” and “invites all actors to do everything possible to guarantee the safety of civilians, restore calm and promote peace among all components of Syrian society.”
A call to respect for high fire
In a press release, Quai d’Orsay remarkably calls the druse and “the other communities of Souweida” to stop fighting and “abuses that point to civilians.” Acts that France says they condemn “firmly.”
The Minister of Defense of the Syrian Transition authorities announced the Alto El Fuego. Quai d’Orsay wants him to be “respected by all actors.”
248 dead since Sunday
According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights of the NGO (OSDH), 248 people have been killed since the beginning of Sunday’s fighting in Souid between Druses and Beduine tribes, which caused government forces with the latter.
The clashes continued on Wednesday in this city in southern Syria, until now maintained by the fighters of local Druzes, where the forces of Syrian Islamist power and their allies were deployed on Tuesday with a clear desire to extend their authority.
The OSDH, the witnesses and groups of Druzes accused them of numerous abuses, including summary executions of civilians and looting. Israel bombed on Wednesday the headquarters of the Syrian army in Damascus after threatening to intensify their attacks against government forces if they did not leave the city.
Source: BFM TV
